Relief ornament and method of making the same.



J. M. CBUCET. RELIEF ORNAMENT AND METHOD 0F MAKING THE SAME.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 19. ms.

1,1 Patented Sept. 21, 1915.

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- -fication and claims and illustrated accompanymg drawing in which:

JOSEPH M. CRUCET, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

RELIEF ORNAMENT AND METHoD OF. MAKING THE 'sAME.

; Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 19, 1915. Serial No. 9,342.

To all whom it may concern v Be it known that I, JosEPi-I 5M. CRUGET, acitizen of the United States, residing at New York,-in the county of NewYork and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements inRelief Ornaments and Methods of Making the Same, of which the followingis a specification. This invention relates to the method of fastening ahas-reliefornament-on a reticudated or foraminous article.

The object of the invention is to mold a plastic composition andsecurely fasten the ornamental moldedfigure on the face of a woven wireor perforated article. The composition can be shaped to anyconfiguration to represent a botanical, art or other-symmetrical design.

The novel features of the inventionare more fully described in thefollowing speciin the Figure 1 represents a side elevationshowdecorated. After this another batch of the same plastic substance issoftened by moist heat to a pulpy condition and pressed on to the backof the article until the two'masses of composition amalgamate.

It will be understood that when the back v of the composition ornamenthas been softened and pressed on to the wire mesh some plastic heatedmass is pressed onto the back ing the invention applied to. a bird cage.

Fig. 2 is a detail horizontal section of the,

ornament on a larger scale. Fig. 3 is a similar section of amodification.

' In this drawing the let-tern designates the vertical wires of a birdcageand b is a section of wire mesh mounted oriathe lower'portion othe-cage. ()n this wire mesh is mounted a composition relief ornament 0having a back (Z of the same composition united to the rear portion ofthe ornament, for engagement with the back ofthe mesh and the wires ofthe cage.

As shown in Fig. 3 the plastic composition ornament 0 is arranged onto afoundation of wire 6 and the back slab of composition Z serves to lockthe ornament to the wire as described above. In this design the ornamentis provided with a jewel f mounted in the composition and held thereinby a wire 7 embedded in the composition.

The relief ornament is composed of whiting with a suitable binder, suchas glue. The binding ingredients are heated and the whiting is graduallyand thoroughly mixed with the same. This plastic substance is pressedinto molds and the ornaments thus formed are subjected to moist heat onthe back thereof until quite soft, then they are applied and pressedonto the object to be of the object.

of the substance will ooze through theinterstices of the mesh, then whenthe second of the ornament it will unite with the same thereby forming ahomogeneousmass to firmly lock the ornament to the wire mesh.

I claim:

1. In a relief ornament the combination with a wire mesh and a series ofwires backing the mesh, of a composition relief ornament arranged on themesh, and a second Patented Sept. 21, 1915.

plastic composition disposed onto the back of the ornament forming ahomogeneous mass to lock the ornament to the mesh and the wires.

2. In relief ornament the combination with a wire mesh article, of acomposition relief ornament arranged on the article, a jewel. embeddedin the ornament, and a composition united to the back of the ornamentand the mesh for fastening the ornament.

3. The method of-fastening composition relief ornaments to a foraminousobject, which consists in heating the back of the ornament after it ismolded, and then pressing the same on to theobject so that the back ofthe ornament will engage the interstices 4. Theimethodof fasteningcomposition of whiting reliefornaments to a foraminous object, whichconsists in heating the back of the ornament after it is molded, thenpres's ing' the same onto the object so that the back of the ornamentwill interlock in the interstices of the object, and then. heatinganother batch of the whiting composition disposing it on the back of thearticle'to unite with the back of the ornament.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the witnesses.

. JOSEPH M. CRUCET. Witnesses:

CHRISTIAN H. AHNsTAEDT, HAZEL V. REIDENBAGH..

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